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WO2002009588A1 - Procede et appareil pour la localisation, la definition et la verification de lesions - Google Patents

Procede et appareil pour la localisation, la definition et la verification de lesions Download PDF

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WO2002009588A1
WO2002009588A1 PCT/CA2001/001113 CA0101113W WO0209588A1 WO 2002009588 A1 WO2002009588 A1 WO 2002009588A1 CA 0101113 W CA0101113 W CA 0101113W WO 0209588 A1 WO0209588 A1 WO 0209588A1
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  • the invention relates to a method wherein the shape, form, position and configuration of a lesion or tumour, to be treated by a radiation therapy device, may be ascertained with greater definition, in order to better design a treatment plan for its eradication.
  • the invention also relates to method and apparatus for verification of the position of the lesion with respect to the radiation beam or beams prior to the execution of a radiation treatment.
  • the invention relates to a method wherein the size, location and disposition of a tumour may be determined, updated and tracked prior to and during treatment therefor.
  • tumours cancerous tumours or lesions
  • the goal of modern day radiation therapy of cancerous tumours or lesions is to eradicate the tumour while avoiding to the maximum extent possible damage to healthy tissue and organs in the vicinity of the tumour. Since the large majority of tumours are radioresponsive, they can be controlled or eradicated completely if a sufficient radiation dose is delivered to the tumour volume. However, the delivery of the necessary tumourcidal dose may result in certain complications due to damage of healthy tissue that surround the tumour, or due to damage to other healthy body organs located in the proximity of the tumour.
  • Conformal therapy is a radiation treatment approach which attempts to combine accurate target localization with focused radiation delivery in order to conform the high dose region closely to the region defined by the outer surface of the tumour while minimizing the dose to surrounding healthy tissue or adjacent healthy organs.
  • Various conformal therapy techniques are well known in the art.
  • Conformal radiation therapy employs dedicated radiation units capable of producing highly energetic radiation beams of photons, electrons or other charged particles.
  • the radiation unit typically has a radiation source, which is typically mounted on a rotatable gantry of the radiation treatment unit. Through gantry rotation, the radiation source is rotated about the patient who is typically placed on a treatment table and the radiation beam is directed towards the tumour or lesion to be treated.
  • Various types of devices are used to conform the shape of the radiation treatment beam to encompass tightly the outline of the tumour as seen by the radiation treatment beam as it traverses the patient's body into the tumour.
  • a multileaf collimator which consists of a set of computer-controlled movable leaves or fingers, which can be positioned individually in and out of the radiation beam in order to shape it to the tumour outline.
  • Various types of radiation treatment planning systems can create a radiation treatment plan which, once implemented will deliver a specified dose to the tumour while sparing the surrounding healthy tissue or adjacent healthy organs.
  • the basic problem in conformal radiation therapy is knowing the location of the target, or lesion or tumour, or alternatively of the healthy organs with respect to the intended placement of the radiation beam or field (I) prior to the design of a radiation treatment plan and (II) at the time of the radiation treatment.
  • Localization of the target volume within the patient prior to the design of a radiation treatment plan is performed by acquiring a three-dimensional image of the patient with a conventional diagnostic imaging device such as computerized tomographic (“CT”) imaging device, a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) device or a positron emission tomographic (“PET”) imaging device, as they are known in the art.
  • CT computerized tomographic
  • MRI magnetic resonance imaging
  • PET positron emission tomographic
  • both the patient's position and the position of the target within the patient at the time of the radiation treatment are assumed to be grossly the same at as they were at the time the treatment plan was created.
  • treatment failures can occur in a sense that the conformal dose of radiation may not be delivered to the correct location within the patient's body. Failures of type (I) can occur if the conventional imaging modality fails to reveal completely the shape, location and orientation of the tumour or lesion or organ of interest.
  • failures of type (II) can occur as a result of organ displacement (motion) from day to day, which may occur from a variety of factors, such as growth of the tumour, change in the patient physionomy due to weight loss, or even patient breathing. Failures of type (II) can also occur from incorrect positioning of the patient on the treatment table of the radiation treatment unit.
  • present day radiation treatment plans typically regard the target of the radiation to occupy a space in the patient's body, which is larger than it really is, in order to ensure that the smaller tumour or lesion, will fall within the larger volume.
  • some healthy tissue or healthy organs surrounding the tumour or lesion will be irradiated with the maximum radiation dose intended for the tumour or target.
  • Delivering the maximum radiation dose to a larger volume of healthy tissue or healthy organs may increase the risk of damaging these, and may for example, promote future cancers in the healthy surrounding tissue.
  • oncologists using present conformal radiation therapy may decide to deliver a lower radiation dose to the intended treatment volume in order to spare the non-target tissue with the potential disadvantage of compromising the success of the treatment by underdosing some portion of the target organ.
  • the insertion and removal of the probe prior to initiating treatment may cause displacement of the lesion, adding further uncertainty to the localization of the tumour.
  • inserting the transrectal probe for each treatment session can cause significant patient discomfort, resulting in this method not gaining popularity with physicians.
  • the above said method registers and superimposes a two-dimensional ultrasound image onto a 2-dimensional image acquired with a conventional diagnostic imaging modality.
  • the ultrasound definition of the lesion is performed only in a single plane.
  • a two-dimensional definition of the lesion is incomplete and therefore inadequate since in other imaging planes, the extent of the lesion volume may be larger or smaller.
  • Holupka is of limited application since it may only be used with respect to a very limited number of tumours, such as of the rectum, lower large intestine, and of the prostate. It can not be used for other type of tumours.
  • the system comprises an ultrasound imaging device to acquire at least one ultrasound image of the lesion in the patient's body and a device to indicate the position of the ultrasound image generating device or probe with respect to the radiation therapy device.
  • the above said system verifies that the actual position of the lesion immediately before the treatment session conforms to the desired position of the lesion in the radiation treatment plan by comparing the outlines of the outer surface of the lesion as defined on the at least one ultrasound image to the outline of the outer surface of the lesion as defined on the at least one of the diagnostic images obtained by a computerized tomographic ("CT”) or alternatively by magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) device and used for the design of the radiation treatment plan.
  • CT computerized tomographic
  • MRI magnetic resonance imaging
  • tumour or lesion or organ in the ultrasound image or images can have an appearance different from that of tumour or lesion or organ in the images obtained with conventional diagnostic devices.
  • process of comparing outlines of the outer surfaces of the tumour or lesion or organ as they appear in images obtained with different imaging devices may be inaccurate since these surfaces can be different both in appearance, and extent.
  • Carol compares apples and oranges, which results in an incomplete assessment of the tumour. Since the trend in conformal treatment is towards more accurate spatial delivery of the exact dose of radiation, this shortcoming is quite significant.
  • CT computerized tomographic
  • MRI magnetic resonance imaging
  • PET positron emission imaging device
  • the invention relates to a method and apparatus for (a) lesion localization and tumour or lesion or organ definition for radiotherapy treatment planning and (b) for verification and rectification of lesion position during radiotherapy treatment.
  • the present invention may include a number of steps to improve the localization, sizing, definition and orientation of a tumour or lesion or organ or of any other area of a body.
  • the present invention may be contemplated for cancer treatment in humans, it is understood that it may also be used for other, non cancer treating medical applications, in both humans and animals.
  • the localization, sizing, etc... of a tumour may be necessary in order to devise a treatment plan for the treatment or eradication a tumour, or for any other necessary or required medical investigation.
  • the steps may comprise: disposing the patient on the table of the conventional diagnostic imaging device; acquiring a diagnostic image or plurality of diagnostic images, using any known conventional diagnostic imaging device, such as for example, a CT, MRI or PET scan.
  • Said acquisition may comprise the use of a number of fiducials placed on the patient surface so that the geometric orientation of the diagnostic image or images can be determined with respect to the diagnostic imaging device; acquiring an ultrasound image or plurality of ultrasound images immediately before or immediately after the acquisition of the diagnostic images with the ultrasound image generating means being disposed in a known geometric orientation with respect to the diagnostic imaging device for each ultrasound image generated; superimposing (known in the art as fusing) or combining the ultrasound image or images with the diagnostic image or images with the previous knowledge about their geometric orientation: outlining the contours of the outer surface of the tumour or lesion or organ on the ultrasound image or images and simultaneously displaying the above said outer surface on the diagnostic image or images; employing the above said contours of the outer surface of the tumour or lesion or organ for the design of a radiation treatment plan.
  • the present invention may include the steps of: disposing the patient on the treatment table of a radiation therapy device; generating at least one ultrasound, i.e. US, image of the lesion in the patient's body with the US image generating means, that is the probe, being disposed in a known geometric orientation for each US image generated; comparing the above said ultrasound image or images to the ultrasound image or images obtained at the time of the acquisition of the diagnostic images whereby the position of the tumour or lesion or organ with respect to the radiation therapy device may be verified to establish conformity with the desired position of the tumour or lesion or organ in the radiation treatment plan.
  • a radiation therapy device may generate at least one ultrasound, i.e. US, image of the lesion in the patient's body with the US image generating means, that is the probe, being disposed in a known geometric orientation for each US image generated
  • Another feature of the present invention may include the method of comparing or registering the ultrasound image or images acquired immediately before the radiation treatment session to the ultrasound image or images obtained immediately before or after the acquisition of the diagnostic images.
  • This method may employ either gray-level image correlation without the need of contour outlines or alternatively the registration of geometric objects (as l ⁇ iown in the art) composed of the outlines the outer surface of the tumour or lesion or organ as defined on the ultrasound image or images acquired in the diagnostic and the radiation therapy room.
  • another feature of the present invention is the step of deteraiining the necessary tumour or lesion or organ displacement in order to dispose the tumour or lesion or organ in the desired position prescribed by the radiation treatment plan.
  • a further feature of the present invention may include the step of performing the above determined tumour or lesion or organ displacement by but not restricted to, moving the treatment table with respect to the radiation treatment device, rotating the treatment table with respect to tlie radiation treatment device, rotating the coUimator of the radiation treatment device as well as rotating the gantry of the radiation therapy device, or any combination of the above.
  • a method for spatially localizing a tumour for the purposes of radiation treatment planning comprising the steps of: generating one or more diagnostic images of said tumour using a diagnostic imaging device selected from the group comprising a CAT scan, PET scan, CT scan, assigning said tumour on said diagnostic image a first three-dimensional coordinate using an absolute coordinate reference system, generating one or more ultrasound image of said tumour using an ultrasound device assigning said tumour on said ultrasound image a second three-dimensional coordinate using said absolute coordinate reference system, fusing said ultrasound image and said image using said first and said second three- dimensional coordinates so as to obtain an accurate image of the tumour.
  • a diagnostic imaging device selected from the group comprising a CAT scan, PET scan, CT scan
  • assigning said tumour on said diagnostic image a first three-dimensional coordinate using an absolute coordinate reference system
  • generating one or more ultrasound image of said tumour using an ultrasound device assigning said tumour on said ultrasound image a second three-dimensional coordinate using said absolute coordinate reference system
  • the present invention provides for: a method for spatially localizing a tumour for the purposes of radiation treatment planning comprising the steps of: placing on the patient a plurality of fiducials in proximity to the estimated position of said tumour, assigning a first three-dimensional coordinate to said fiducials using an absolute coordinate system, generating one or more diagnostic images of said tumour using a diagnostic imaging device selected from the group comprising a CAT scan, PET scan, CT scan, said at least one diagnostic image comprising thereon an image of said tumour and further comprising said fiducials, assigning said tumour on said at least one diagnostic image a second three-dimensional coordinate using said first three-dimensional coordinate of said fiducials as a reference, generating one or more ultrasound image of said tumour using an ultrasound device, said at least one ultrasound image comprising thereon an image of said tumour and further comprising said fiducials, assigning said tumour on said ultrasound image a third three-dimensional coordinate using said first three-dimensional coordinate of said fiducials as a reference, fusing said
  • a method for spatially localizing a tumour for the purposes of radiation treatment planning comprising the steps of: placing on the patient a plurality of fiducials in proximity to the estimated position of said tumour, assigning a first three-dimensional coordinate to said fiducials.using an absolute coordinate system, generating one or more diagnostic images of said tumour using a diagnostic imaging device selected from the group comprising a CAT scan, PET scan, CT scan, said at least one diagnostic image comprising thereon an image of said tumour and further comprising said fiducials, assigning said tumour on said at least one diagnostic image a second three-dimensional coordinate using said first three-dimensional coordinate of said fiducials as a reference, generating one or more ultrasound image of said tumour using an ultrasound device, said at least one ultrasound image comprising thereon an image of said tumour, using a positioning system configured so as to allow the position and orientation of said one or more ultrasound image to be known, such that a tumour on said one or more ultrasound image may be assigned
  • a system for spatially localizing a tumour for the purposes of radiation treatment planning comprising: a diagnostic imaging device selected from the group comprising a CAT scan, PET scan, CT scan, said diagnostic imaging device being adapted for generating at least one diagnostic image of said tumour, an ultrasound device, said ultrasound device being adapted for generating at least one ultrasound image of said tumour, a means for providing an absolute coordinate reference system, such that said tumour is assigned with a first three-dimensional coordinate on said diagnostic image, and a second three-dimensional coordinates on said ultrasound image a means for fusing said diagnostic image and said ultrasound image using said first three- dimensional coordinate and said second three-dimentional coordinate so as to obtain an accurate image of said tumour.
  • FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a conventional diagnostic imaging device with a patient schematically illustrated on the imaging table.
  • FIG. 3 is a further perspective view of an imaging device of FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 4 is an example of an image produced by the imaging device of FIG. 2 illustrating the position of the lesion within the patient body.
  • FIG. 5 is an example of an image produced by the imaging device of FIG. 2 illustrating fiducials with l ⁇ iown positions with respect to the diagnostic imaging device and visible on the diagnostic image or images.
  • FIG. 6 is a representation of the three-dimensional diagnostic image data reconstructed from the multiple diagnostic images such as the one depicted in FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 7 is a perspective schematic view of the conventional diagnostic imaging device of FIG. 2, including a means for generating an ultrasound image of the lesion with the patient's body.
  • FIG. 8 is a representation of an ultrasound image of the tumour or lesion or organ.
  • FIG. 9 is a perspective view indicating multiple ultrasound images being taken of a lesion with the ultrasound apparatus of FIG. 7
  • FIG. 10 is a representation of the three-dimensional ultrasound image data reconstructed from the multiple ultrasound images acquired in the room of the diagnostic imaging device and depicted in FIG. 9.
  • FIG. 11 is a representation of the three-dimensional ultrasound and diagnostic image data sets superimposed or combined.
  • FIG. 12 is a representation of a sequence of two-dimensional ultrasound pictures of the lesion within the three-dimensional ultrasound data with the lesion having its outer surface outlined.
  • FIG. 13 is a three-dimensional rendering of the outline of the image prepared from the lesion contours as illustrated in FIG. 12.
  • FIG. 14 is a perspective view of a conventional radiotherapy treatment device, or linear accelerator including a rotatable couch, coUimator and gantry.
  • FIG. 15 is a perspective schematic view of the linear accelerator including a means for generating an ultrasound image of the lesion within the patient's body.
  • FIG. 16 is a view indicating multiple ultrasound images being taken of a lesion with the ultrasound imaging device of FIG. 15.
  • FIG. 17 is a representation of the three-dimensional ultrasound image data reconstructed from the multiple ultrasound images acquired in the room of the therapy device and depicted in FIG. 16.
  • FIG. 18 is a representation of several two-dimensional ultrasound images with the lesion of FIG. 17 having its outer surface outlined.
  • FIG. 19 is a three-dimensional rendering of the outline of the image prepared from the plurality of images from FIG. 18.
  • FIG. 20 is a representation of the process of determining the necessary corrections in the treatment setup (table position, coUimator and gantry rotation) prior to a treatment session based on contour or surface registration.
  • FIG. 21 is a representation of the process of determining the necessary corrections in the treatment setup (table position, coUimator and gantry rotation) prior to a treatment session based on image cross-correlation.
  • FIG. 1 An illustration of an embodiment of the method and apparatus of the present invention is shown in the components of the apparatus and images derived from the figures.
  • FIG. 1 An illustration of an embodiment of the method and apparatus of the present invention is shown in the components of the apparatus and images derived from the figures.
  • FIG. 1 An illustration of an embodiment of the method and apparatus of the present invention is shown in the components of the apparatus and images derived from the figures.
  • FIG. 1 An illustration of an embodiment of the method and apparatus of the present invention is shown in the components of the apparatus and images derived from the figures.
  • FIG. 1 An illustration of an embodiment of the method and apparatus of the present invention is shown in the components of the apparatus and images derived from the figures.
  • FIG. 1 An illustration of an embodiment of the method and apparatus of the present invention is shown in the components of the apparatus and images derived from the figures.
  • FIG. 1 An illustration of an embodiment of the method and apparatus of the present invention is shown in the components of the apparatus and images derived from the figures.
  • FIG. 1 An illustration of an embodiment of
  • a diagnostic device selected from group comprising an MRI, CT or PET
  • an ultrasound apparatus such as those of Acuson, GE Medical Systems, Siemens, Toshiba and others.
  • the order in which the two images is acquired is generally of no consequence, as long as the images are acquired within a short period of time of the other, for example, but not limited, to within one hour.
  • the first image to be acquired may for example, be acquired through the use of a diagnostic imaging device 002, which may be, for example, a computerized tomography (“CT”) scanner, a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) scanner or alternatively a positron emission tomography (“PET”) scanner, or any other equivalent device, or any other image producing diagnostic device.
  • a diagnostic imaging device 002 is schematically shown with a conventional imaging table 001, upon which a patient 009 having a tumour or a lesion or an organ of interest 010 may be disposed.
  • the diagnostic imaging device 002 may produce a cross- sectional image 023 or a "slice" of the body tissue, one such "slice” being schematically illustrated in fig.4, with the tumour or lesion or organ of interest 010 shown.
  • Several diagnostic images 023 may be acquired by causing relative motion between the diagnostic imaging device 002 and the patient 009 in the slice acquisition space 017 of the diagnostic imaging device 002 as shown, for example, in fig 3.
  • Fig 6 illustrates a three-dimensional picture 027 formed or reconstructed from a plurality of (consecutive) diagnostic images 023 of parts or sections of the patient 009.
  • the image of the tumour 010 as acquired with the diagnostic imaging device 002 is to be compared with the image of the same tumour 010 taken with an ultrasound device 005, 008 as seen in Figure 1, it is necessary for the tumour to be referenced, i.e., given a set of coordinates which will allow said comparison to be effective.
  • said coordinates may be independent of both the diagnostic imaging device 002 and of the ultrasound device 005, 008.
  • the coordinate system may have to be able to correlate the position of a tumour 010 found with the diagnostic imaging device 002 with the position of the same tumour 010 found with the ultrasound imaging device 005, 008. Therefore an absolute coordinate system 011 may need to be established.
  • a means for assigning an absolute coordinate to the tumour 010 on an absolute coordinate system 011 may be provided, which absolute coordinate may be used to correlate the, for example CT image of the tumour 010 with the ultrasound image thereof.
  • a number of markers also l ⁇ iown as fiducials, for example, three fiducials 029 as illustrated in Figure 5, may be placed on the patient's body 009 in or around the vicinity of the lesion before the acquisition of the diagnostic images 023.
  • the fiducials 029 may all be placed in the same plane.
  • the position of the fiducials (which may be any physical markers which may be easily seen or identified in a diagnostic image) may then be ascertained in the absolute coordinate system 011 through the use of any known system, for example a measurement system.
  • the measurement system may take any known shape or form.
  • the measurement system may, in one embodiment, comprise one or more lasers, or laser systems, which lasers may for example be disposed on the walls or the ceiling of the room in which the . diagnostic imaging device 002 is located.
  • Such measurement systems are known in the art, and may for example, be purchased commercially from a company called Cemar Electric, product Cermaligne, model number CL 505-CH2.
  • the lasers, or any other suitable device may be directed at the fiducials, and through the laser beams being bounced back off of the fiducials to their source or to any other measurement device, the coordinates of the fiducials may be determined and assigned.
  • the fiducials may be assigned absolute coordinates, for example, X , Y ⁇ , Z ⁇ , as illustrated in FIG. 5.
  • the measurement system may then download or forward said absolute coordinates of the fiducials to the diagnostic imaging device.
  • the coordinates of the fiducials 029 are l ⁇ iown in the absolute coordinate system 011 and the relative position of the tumour 010 is known with respect to the fiducials 029 from information shown in slice 023 of fig 5, a conventional fitting algorithm known to those of ordinary skill in the art can be used to determine a transformation matrix, or coordinate transformation so as to assign absolute coordinates to any point in the tumour 010, for example X 2 , Y 2 , Z 2 .
  • the determination of the coordinates (X, Y, Z) of any object within diagnostic image 023 or 027 may be accomplished in this manner, and therefore assigned absolute coordinates within the absolute coordinate system 011.
  • Figures 4 and 5 are shown as having the absolute coordinate system 011 disposed through the patient 009, it is understood that said absolute coordinate system 011 may be disposed otherwise than through the body 009.
  • FIG 7 An additional step in the determination of the size, location and orientation of a tumour 010 may be illustrated in FIG 7, wherein a means 005, 008 for generating at least one ultrasound image 016 of the lesion 010 is shown.
  • Said means 008 for generating at least one ultrasound image may be disposed in the diagnostic imaging room where the diagnostic image device 002 is located.
  • the means 008 for generating an ultrasound image 016 may utilize a conventional, commercially available ultrasound probe 005.
  • the ultrasound probe 005 may be brought into contact with the patient's body 009 in order to generate the ultrasound image or images 016 of the tumour or lesion or organ 010, as illustrated in fig 8.
  • a plurality of ultrasound images 016 of the tumour or lesion or organ 010 may be acquired in various planes.
  • the lesion 010 is shown disposed within the plurality of ultrasound images 016 with the plane of each ultrasound image representative of the orientation of the ultrasound probe 005 at the time of the ultrasound image acquisition.
  • the planes may not necessarily be parallel to each other. From the plurality of the ultrasound images 016 a reconstruction of the three-dimensional volume or picture 031 (fig 10) of the ultrasound data may be performed.
  • the orientation and the position (hereafter referred to as the orientation) of the ultrasound probe 005 with respect to the absolute coordinate system 011 must be known at the time each ultrasound of the tumour 010 is made.
  • a means 006a, 006b for indicating the (spatial) orientation of the ultrasound probe 005 may be used, and in particular may be disposed in the room of the diagnostic device 002 as shown in Fig 7. Any conventional position sensing system may be used as means 006a, 006b to determine the position and the orientation of the ultrasound probe 005.
  • position sensing means 006a and 006b may enable the determination of the position of said probe with respect to the absolute coordinate system 011.
  • the positioning systems may include, but is not limited to: a camera system fixed in the room which looks at light emitting or reflective markers mounted on the ultrasound probe 005; ultrasonic system with emitters mounted on the probe 005 with a detector measuring the distances to these emitters by time measurements and consequent geometric triangulation to determine the ultrasound probe 005 position and orientation; a positioning system based on a mechanical arm with the ultrasound probe 005 attached to the arm. It is to be noted that neither the ultrasound probe 005 nor the means 006a, 006b for indicating the geometric orientation of the ultrasound probe 995have to be fixed to the table 001 of the diagnostic imaging device 002.
  • the means 006a, 006b for determining the coordinates and the geometric orientation of the ultrasound probe 005 are coordinated, aligned, connected or calibrated to the absolute coordinate system 011 i.e., for example, the lasers.
  • the coordinates (X, Y, Z) in the absolute coordinate reference system 011 of any point or feature in an ultrasound images 016 may be ascertained.
  • the lasers which may form the basis of the absolute coordinate system 011 may be used to determine the absolute coordinates of a tumour 010 taken with an ultrasound image, as illustrated in Figure 10.
  • the absolute coordinate system 011 is common to both the diagnostic , imaging device 002 and the ultrasound device 005, it is possible to accurately correlate the position of a tumour 010 with respect to both systems.
  • the value of the ultrasound image data for each point within the reconstructed volume 031 can be determined by interpolating algorithms l ⁇ iown to those of ordinary skill in the art.
  • the acquisition control and fusion software may be executed on a dedicated computer or workstation 013 as illustrated in fig 1. Standard segmentation and other image enhancing tools are available to facilitate the process of lesion outlining and rendering.
  • the ultrasound three-dimensional image data 031 and the diagnostic three-dimensional image 027 represent pictures of spatially overlapping volumes or sections of the patient anatomy at two very close moments of time. For a large number of anatomical sites it can be assumed that, within the accuracy required for treatment planning, the patient anatomy at these two very close moments of time does not change and therefore both the ultrasound three-dimensional image data 031 and the diagnostic three-dimensional image data 027 represent temporally identical, spatially overlapping sections of the same patient anatomy.
  • the ultrasound three-dimensional image data 031 and the diagnostic three-dimensional image data 027 can be superimposed, i.e. accurately superimposed as illustrated in figure 11.
  • contours 022 of the outer surface of the lesion 010 can be defined in arbitrarily selected planes within the ultrasound three-dimensional image data 031 or diagnostic three-dimensional image data 027 (Fig 12) and displayed at their correct location within the ultrasound three-dimensional image data 031 or the diagnostic three-dimensional image data 027.
  • contours 022 can be used to perform three- dimensional rendering 021 of the lesion within the diagnostic three-dimensional image data 027 (FIG. 13).
  • the lesion 010 is (1) localized and defined with respect the absolute coordinate reference system Ollof the diagnostic device 002 and (2) localized, defined and visualized within the diagnostic three-dimensional image data 027.
  • a radiation treatment plan can be designed in a conventional manner to deliver the necessary radiation to the lesion 010. This is so even if the lesion 010 may not have been completely visualized by the image or images 023 acquired with the diagnostic imaging device 002 or alternately, by the ultrasound device 005. However, the combination of the two creates a more accurate picture of the tumour 010.
  • a radiation treatment plan such as for example a conformal plan, whereby the shape of the radiation beam will conform to the spatial contour or outline 022 of the lesion may be designed.
  • the radiation treatment plan will preferably be designed to avoid excessive radiation damage to the organ 010.
  • the ultrasound three-dimensional image data 031, the diagnostic three-dimensional image data 027, the contours 022 of the outer surface of the lesion 010 and the three-dimensional rendering 021 of the lesion 010 may then be transferred from the workstation 031 as illustrated in Fig 1 to a computer or a workstation 014 in the control area of the radiation therapy device 003, also illustrated in Fig 1, to serve as reference data for the verification of the treatment position of the tumour or lesion or organ Ol lbefore the radiation treatment session.
  • a diagnostic image 027 and the ultrasound image 031 is not a necessary step of the hereinafter described method.
  • an ultrasound of the tumour 010 may be taken during the treatment plan, the whole as described above, using ultrasound equipment 008 and 005. It is understood that the use of an absolute coordinate system 011 in conjunction with the taking of the ultrasound during the diagnostic phase may be required in order to assign absolute coordinates to said tumour 010.
  • the verification of the tumour or lesion or organ 010 position may proceed in the following manner.
  • the patient 009 having a tumour or a lesion or an organ of interest 010 may be disposed on the treatment table 018 of the conventional therapy device 003 hereafter referred to as a linear accelerator.
  • the method herein described may be used with any known or future radiation therapy device, or with any other type of therapy apparatus.
  • the same patient has had in the past, such as in the immediate past, an ultrasound performed in order to determine the size, shape and orientation of the tumour 010 during the diagnostic phase, the whole as described above. During said ultrasound, an absolute coordinate (X, Y, Z)was assigned to said tumour.
  • the position in other words, the absolute coordinates of the tumour or lesion or organ 010 of the patient on the therapy table 018 will undoubtedly be different than the absolute coordinates of the tumour 010 as assigned during the previous diagnostic phase. This may be due to a variety of factors, including different sizes and shapes of the machines involved, different positioning of the patient 009, and the fact that the tumour 010 itself may have grown, shrunk, or moved.
  • a common absolute reference frame or system i.e. common to the ultrasound device 008 and to the therapy device 003 must be devised, to be able to correlate positions between a tumour 010 as identified by the ultrasound imaging device 008, and the same tumour 010 identified by ultrasound prior to being treated by the linear accelerator 003, which linear accelerator is probably situated in a different physical location.
  • This may be accomplished through the use of a similar measurement system as described above, which system may, for example, comprise lasers disposed on the walls or the ceiling of the treatment room (019, FIG. 1).
  • the measurement system used in the diagnostic room with the ultrasound 008 and 005 may be the same as the measurement system used in the treatment room, although not strictly necessary. However, both systems must be calibrated so as to give a reference frame which is common to both the diagnostic ultrasound device 008 and the therapy device 003. As a result, the absolute coordinate reference system 011 of the ultrasound diagnostic device 005 and the absolute coordinate system 019 of the therapy device 003 (as illustrated in Figure 17) may give coordinates which are common to both, and which can be correlated.
  • the intended treatment position 032 (possibly including orientation) of the lesion 010 may be calculated from the spatial coordinates and extent of the lesion 010 determined previously by the ultrasound imaging device 002 with the localization and definition method described earlier and illustrated in Fig 2 to Fig 13.
  • a 4 x 4 transformation matrix T may be determined which when applied to the patient by mechanical motions of the therapy device table 018, of the treatment device coUimator 004 as well as of the treatment device gantry 007 disposes the tumour or lesion or organ 010 in the desired treatment position. If the absolute coordinate reference system 011 of the ultrasound diagnostic device 002 and the absolute coordinate system 019 of the therapy device 003 are not identical, a predefined transformation matrix or coordinate transformation may be used between the two to correlate coordinates of a tumour 010 in one system with the coordinates in the other.
  • a means 028 (Fig 15) for generating at least one ultrasound image 020 of the lesion 010 (fig 15) is disposed in the therapy room, as depicted in fig 15.
  • the means 028 for generating at least one ultrasound image 020 utilizes a conventional, commercially available ultrasound probe 025 (fig 15).
  • the ultrasound probe 025 is brought in contact with the patient body 009 (fig 15) in order to generate an ultrasound image or images 020 of the tumour or lesion or organ 010 (fig 16).
  • a plurality of ultrasound images 020 (fig 16) of the tumour or lesion or organ 010 may be acquired.
  • the lesion 010 is shown disposed within the plurality of ultrasound images 020 with the plane of each ultrasound image representative of the orientation of the ultrasound probe 025 at the time of the ultrasound image acquisition.
  • a reconstruction of the three-dimensional volume or picture 033 (fig 17) of the ultrasound data is performed in the absolute coordinate system 019 of the therapy device 003. It is to be noted that, depending on the size of the reconstructed volume 033 there may be location in the periphery of reconstructed volume 033 for which ultrasound data are not available.
  • a means 026a, 026b for indicating the geometric orientation of the ultrasound probe 025 may be disposed in the room of the therapy device 003 as shown in figl5. Any conventional position sensing system can be used as means 026a, 026b to determine the position and the orientation of the ultrasound probe 025 with respect to the coordinate system 019 of the therapy device 003, the whole as more fully described above.
  • the means 026a-026b for indicating the geometric orientation of the ultrasound probe 025 are aligned with or as known in the art, calibrated to the absolute coordinate reference system 019 of the therapy device 003. Because of this alignment or calibration, for any point or feature from the plurality of ultrasound images, the coordinates (A, B, C) of any point, i.e. tumour 010 in the absolute coordinate system 019 of the therapy device 003 are l ⁇ iown. With this knowledge, the value of the ultrasound image data for each point within the reconstructed volume 033 (fig 17) can be determined by interpolating algorithms known to those of ordinary skill in the art.
  • any point or feature within the volume of ultrasound image data 033 (fig 17) the coordinates (X, Y, Z) in the absolute coordinate system 019 of the therapy device 003 are l ⁇ iown.
  • the localization of the tumour or lesion or organ 010 as depicted by the three-dimensional ultrasound image data 033 (fig 17) is complete.
  • contours 024 (fig 18) of the outer surface of the lesion 010 can be defined in arbitrary planes within the ultrasound three-dimensional image data 033 (fig 17). These contours 024 can be used to properly perform three-dimensional rendering 034 (fig 19) of the lesion in the coordinate system 019 of the therapy device003.
  • the necessary adjustments of the treatment table 018 position, of the treatment device coUimator 004 rotation as well as of the treatment device gantry 007 rotation can be performed by either of the following two methods.
  • the first method establishes a coordinate transformation (4 x 4 transformation matrix) R between the absolute coordinate system 011 of the ultrasound diagnostic device 002 and the coordinate system 019 of the therapy device 003 by superimposing or matching of the three-dimensional surface 022 or contours 021 of the lesion 010 as outlined within the three-dimensional ultrasound localization data 031 acquired with the ultrasound diagnostic device 002 prior to the treatment plan to the three-dimensional surface 034 or contours 024 of the lesion 010 as outlined within the three-dimensional ultrasound localization data 033 acquired by the ultrasound device 025 and 028 in the therapy device 003.
  • Conventional methods for contour and surface matching may include chamfer matching and "top-and-hat" least square distance matching, as well as any other required or desired method.
  • FIG. 21 An alternative method for the establishment of the coordinate transformation R between the absolute coordinate system 031 of the ultrasound diagnostic device 002 and the coordinate system 019 of the therapy device 003, which does not rely on predefined contours or surfaces is illustrated in fig 21.
  • the image cross correlation is performed between the reconstructed three-dimensional ultrasound localization data 033 acquired in the room of the therapy device 003 before the treatment session and the three-dimensional ultrasound localization data 031 acquired in the room of the diagnostic device 002 prior to the design of the treatment plan.
  • the coordinate transformation is selected to be the one which produces the highest peak of the correlation value between the two three-dimensional data sets 033 and 031.
  • the determination of the necessary adjustments of the treatment table 018 position, of the treatment device coUimator 004 rotation as well as of the treatment device gantry 007 rotation is then performed by a decomposition of the 4 x 4 transformation matrix _TR _l by algorithms known to those of ordinary skill in the art. It is to be noted that after the establishment of the coordinate transformation R between the absolute coordinate system 011 of the ultrasound diagnostic device 002 and the coordinate system 019 of the therapy device 003 by either of the above said two methods, adjustments other than the above said adjustments of the treatment table 018 position, of the treatment device coUimator 004 rotation as well as of the treatment device gantry 007 rotation can be undertalcen.

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Cette invention se rapporte à un procédé et à un appareil servant à la définition de lésions ou d'organes, en vue de localiser un plan de traitement par rayonnement et de vérifier la position du traitement. Cet appareil utilise en association un système d'imagerie ultrasonore et un système d'imagerie diagnostique, en vue d'acquérir des images ultrasonores de localisation référencées dans l'espace des coordonnées du système d'imagerie diagnostique, par utilisation d'un système de détection de position. Ce procédé compare la position de la lésion dans les images ultrasonores de localisation avec la position de la lésion dans les images ultrasonores prises pendant que le patient est étendu sur la table de traitement d'une unité thérapeutique, il propose des mesures correctrices pour placer la lésion dans sa position de traitement voulue et il effectue la correction après confirmation par du personnel qualifié.
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